Case Study: Indiana Wesleyan University achieves 10x faster content updates and rapid migration with Hannon Hill's Cascade CMS

Indiana Wesleyan University - Customer Case Study

Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU) is a private, evangelical university of more than 15,000 students that needed a modern CMS to address slow site performance, poor responsive support, limited CRM integration, lack of A/B testing and the desire for platform independence and multilingual/mobile capabilities. A small web team (three full‑time, one part‑time and one student worker) defined clear goals for ease of use, template flexibility and self‑sufficiency before evaluating vendors.

After extensive sandbox testing and training, IWU chose Hannon Hill’s Cascade CMS and implemented it themselves within two months, migrating 98% of content with the Universal Migration Tool. Early results include significant performance improvements and much faster content updates (about one minute in Cascade versus ten in the old system); the team is continuing rollouts, including the alumni site and a multi‑year site redesign.

Indiana Wesleyan University

Evan Eikenberry

Digital Content Manager